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Minister Amna Ali responds to Rohee

Nov 22, 2015 News

Minister of Social Cohesion, Amna Ali, has responded to recent calls by People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Clement Rohee, to scrap the Ministry of Social Cohesion (MOSC). “His interpretation of the role of the MOSC,” she said “is completely flawed and is designed to foster the converse to what my Ministry is designed to negate.”
Rohee at a recent press conference, had said that the PPP will ensure that the “so called Ministry of Social Cohesion does not succeed in its divisive manipulative, deceitful and bribe-sharing efforts to divide Guyanese socially, politically along religious lines ostensibly for electoral purposes.”
Ali stated that the assertions made by Rohee regarding the MOSC are a convoluted understanding of the Ministry, “which must be condemned.” Rohee’s counter attack, she said, did not come as a surprise since she had responded to his charges against GECOM with allegations of ethnic biases.
The APNU + AFC Government, she stated, is aware that Guyana is becoming increasingly diverse. Currently, she said, there are deliberate efforts by the government to encourage citizens of our country to cooperate with each other in order to survive and prosper as Guyanese. As such, (the government) resents the tirade of insinuations of division “bleated” by Rohee.
“It is about time that he ceases to be bitter, articulating race and hate-based messages. He and his Party must concede defeat at the 2015 National and Regional Elections and embrace nation building,” said Ali.
The evidence of division and its potential to destroy Guyana as a nation are factors, which have driven the administration to put mechanisms in place at an institutional level, to respond to further threats of divisiveness, said Ali.
“We have seen what division, marginalization and polarization can do and we, therefore, raise a standard against them- the previous administration saw nothing to gain from fostering cohesion and it was for that reason every counter attack to cohesion was nurtured and perpetuated. Unfortunately, Mr. Rohee, is still seeking to do the same thing.”
Ali implored Guyanese at home and abroad to condemn “these deliberate attempts to divide Guyana and sow seeds of discord among Guyanese. As a nation we have too much to lose by these attempts to divide and rule. It is said that experience is the extract from suffering. This coalition government teems with experience.”

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